Interesting that you haven’t made any predictions for movement within the IE market, such as IE6 to IE8 – surely this is the biggest issue for web developers?

I don’t foresee there being any significant impact on IE6 as a result of the ballot screen. People who are currently using IE6 on XP/Vista have not upgraded up until now, and they are unlikely to want to, or be able to. It may speed up the migration from IE7 to IE8.

It is disappointingly ironic that, despite Opera setting this whole process in motion, they will probably benefit least from it – Firefox and Google are well-known brands, but Opera still haven’t got their heads round marketing. Maybe they are hoping that users of Opera Mini will recognise the brand and go with it – I hope so, but I’m not too optimistic about it.

]]>By: Bitmeshhttps://www.sitepoint.com/european-browser-choice-today/#comment-68600
Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:02:08 +0000http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=18654#comment-68600Way too many browsers on that list. The average joe will not experiment but will feel overwhelmed and thus picking what they’re used to.
]]>By: xhtmlcoderhttps://www.sitepoint.com/european-browser-choice-today/#comment-68599
Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:38:09 +0000http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=18654#comment-68599I can understand the first “big 5” being on the list and to some extent another ‘lite’ browser or two.

Admittedly, I have been sleeping; though from what data have they compiled this list?

From my understanding; some of the others are hardly used in Europe. In fact I’ve barely come across the names of one or two of the others; is this “Browser Choice List” a “realistic representation” of browser market share in Europe?

I find it hard to believe it is, or is it just a case of the big players have approx 99% so they just scraped in some dregs so that they don’t look too biased.

I can see the “newbie” being totally confused.

]]>By: anonhttps://www.sitepoint.com/european-browser-choice-today/#comment-68598
Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:52:59 +0000http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=18654#comment-68598IE8 will increase at the expense of IE7; IE6 will remain the same; not too much else will change.

But the simple fact is that most users don’t care too much which browser they use: a (fairly) recent survey conducted by Google showed that most people don’t even know what a browser is.

Put it this way. I clean my teeth with a ZY11 toothbrush. If some nerdy-looking clown came along and told me NEVER to use the ZY11 and stressed the need to upgrade to the ZY12, I’d just look at him and laugh.

]]>By: Tonyhttps://www.sitepoint.com/european-browser-choice-today/#comment-68597
Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:50:40 +0000http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=18654#comment-68597I think the world is eventually getting the message that the Internet doesn’t equal IE and that there are far better alternatives to it.

The only real reason for sticking to IE is that some sites particularly those that require ActiveX are still about e.g. some Anti Virus and Banks.

But the world will come to love the Fox :P

]]>By: Clintoniohttps://www.sitepoint.com/european-browser-choice-today/#comment-68596
Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:41:37 +0000http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=18654#comment-68596Being a techie that I am, I actually educated my entire family on browsers. My family aren’t the brightest people, but just a few casual chats and an installation of Opera and they all now have opinions on the various browsers. We’re an Opera family now. In fact, I think everyone I talk to regularly uses Opera, and 90% of that is because of me.

It’s pretty interesting to see Firefox 3.5 to be more popular in Europe than in the rest of the world.

I’ve got no stats to back this up, but I wonder if this is a recent change after the French and German governments recently recommended dropping IE for Firefox?

]]>By: Jasonhttps://www.sitepoint.com/european-browser-choice-today/#comment-68594
Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:14:18 +0000http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=18654#comment-68594That explains something. When I started my computer just now there was what I assumed to be junk/spam on my screen asking me some questions about browsers. It didn’t look like an official message, it was a plain wide white box that looked exactly like a nuisance pop-up. So I clicked on it to go away.

Not a bad idea in theory but this is really going to confuse a lot of people. As Google’s reasearch found recently, most people don’t even know what the word “browser” means. To them it’s just the Internet.